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Strop

  • 04-11-2011 2:11pm
    #1
    kildara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭


    I have a old straight razor returned honed, polished, cleaned etc, in fact its been sitting for well over a year now, haven't used it yet as I want to get a strop for it before I start.
    Just went on the net to buy a cheap one (cos no doubt I will cut it a few times) but I see most places that sell them sell the pastes also.
    Do I also need a paste or will a strop suffice on its own?

    Can anyone recommend a good cheap beginners strop?


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  • #2
    hitemfrank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭hitemfrank


    Just to clarify, it was recently honed?

    A cheap strop is definitely the way to go. You will probably cut it up so something cheap and easily replaced is good. The pastes pretty much extend the life of the edge before it will need to be rehoned again. If the razor was not honed recently it will need to be stropped on paste at the very least.

    So I would recommend picking up this. It has a strop and some pastes already applied to some balsa wood (and some extra pastes). This is a pretty good set up to get started with to learn how to strop properly.

    Another option is this strop. It is a nice strop and one I'm currenty using. It is treated with paste on the back side of it.


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